Markets

RTKL is a full-service planning, architecture and creative services organization with a diverse portfolio of experience and expertise. While we’re a global practice, and we deliver services across multiple markets, we pride ourselves on our ability to work within a local context and with a deep understanding of our clients’ needs. We are organized by areas of expertise rather than by discipline or location so that every project we take on has access to the best of our talent and resources. Throughout the firm we have embraced a culture of collaboration that we believe breeds a more holistic approach to design and a clearer path to innovation through a cross-pollination of ideas and talents. From healthcare to hospitality, retail to workplace, our market sectors represent the shared experience and expertise of our best designers, our strongest thinkers and our most creative professionals.

Markets Overview

Cultural
We design cultural environments that balance functionality with timeless beauty. Simultaneously educational and uplifting, our museums and cultural centers provide symbols of the time in which they were built and the information they contain. These are buildings that serve their users and communities, today and well into the future.
Mixed-Use
Our mixed-use projects begin with smart planning that fosters a true sense of place and a symbiotic, mutually beneficial relationship among uses. Drawing from our broad range of disciplines and expertise, we understand how to strike the right balance of retail, residential, workplace and civic uses to help ensure visitors arrive for one reason—and stay for the rest.
Retail & Entertainment
As leaders in the field of retail and entertainment design for more than four decades, RTKL has driven the evolution of retail centers from shopping malls to today’s vibrant mixed-use environments. We design places that encourage social interaction and function as extensions of the daily lives of today’s savvy consumers.
Hospitality
We design hospitality environments that embrace the guest experience, surpass our clients’ expectations and predict guests’ desires at every level of detail. With a range of services from architecture and planning to interiors and branding, our hospitality group has worked with major hotel operators as well as independent investors and land owners to deliver a range of environments—hotels, resorts, cruise ships, spas and casinos.
Residential
Our residential projects embrace connections, sustainability, and smart growth principles while creating vibrant places to live. At RTKL, we design high-density projects, urban apartments, luxury condominiums, senior housing, sales centers, residential interiors and academic housing that create community and form crucial links to retail, transit and workplace hubs.
Planning & Urban Design
Whether revitalizing downtown districts, re-inventing suburbia or developing a transit-oriented development, our planning group creates sustainable and economically viable settings in which people live, work and shop. For more than four decades, our work has established logical frameworks, fostered heightened cooperation between public and private interests, and sparked a sense of civic pride.
Sports & Public Assembly
Our sports design team does more than simply design state-of-the-art sports facilities. Our “inside-out” approach considers the retail and entertainment district beyond the stadium, creating vibrant, around-the-clock urban developments that extend the life of the stadium and bring new value to cities.
Healthcare
Our healthcare group specializes in innovative, technologically advanced facilities that set industry benchmarks and foster positive outcomes. We offer the most comprehensive services available from any one source—strategic facilities planning, architecture, interior design, healthcare technologies and clinical-transitioning services for new facilities.
Workplace
By staying abreast of trends that affect business everyday, we design places that facilitate corporate agility, innovation, culture and collaboration. Our workplace experts have worked with major corporations, law firms, professional associations and government agencies to deliver specialized services to best serve the bottom line.
Public & Diplomatic
Our public and diplomatic buildings are both stunning pieces of architecture and functional places of business. Whether we are designing embassies, courthouses, or other public buildings, we create environments that make crucial connections to their users and their communities. From historically preserved places to new iconic facilities, our buildings are representative and appropriate.
Academic
We design academic environments that reflect a school’s character and tradition; promote security, convenience and comfort; and express academic collaboration and technological sophistication. From master planning to interiors, we know how to maximize the value of an institution’s real estate, strengthen the endowment and enhance the academic experience.
Science & Technology
We design flexible and adaptable science and technology environments that support change as research opportunities evolve and technology matures over time. Our team of technology and design experts delivers state-of-the-art facilities that house laboratories for higher education, corporate, and government clients.
Mission Critical
Our applied technology projects emphasize facility flexibility, system reliability, and a long-term ability to accommodate emerging technology. At RTKL, our award-winning team delivers high-quality MEP, telecommunications, audio-visual systems, stand alone or fit ups, new construction and renovations.
Transit
More and more, transit is becoming a crucial aspect of urban and suburban development, creating opportunities for sustainable, walk-able environments. Our international team of planners and architects understands that transit is only as strong as the connections it makes to its users and surrounding development.